2014 in Ethiopia

Incumbents

• President: Mulatu Teshome
• Prime Minister: Hailemariam Desalegn

Events

Ongoing

• Oromo protests

February

• 17 February – The Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 between Addis Ababa and Rome is diverted to land at Geneva in an attempted hijacking by the co-pilot who claims to be seeking political asylum.

April

• 16 April – Gunmen ambush a bus killing nine people and wounding six others in western Ethiopia near the Sudanese border.

May

• 2 May – At least nine students are killed in protests in Oromia Region.

November

• 4 November – In Johannesburg, Angolan journalist and human rights campaigner Rafael Marques says the African Union should move its headquarters out of Ethiopia because of concerns about freedom of expression there.

December

• 6 December – At least 70 drown when a migrant boat from Ethiopia sinks off the Red Sea coast of Yemen.

Deaths

• 6 March – Alemayehu Atomsa, 45, President of Oromia Region.